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Originally Posted by Arneb
No, I wouldn't say that GR stems directly from Mach's philosphy, although of course, Einstein was greatly influenced by his thinking.
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Einstein himself gave a lot of credit to Mach, though Mach refused it.
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Relativity theory is very much about clocks and meter sticks and could have been arrived at without knowing about Mach's philosophy.
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That's special relativity, not general relativity, which came ten years later.
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I am thinking of the application of philosphy leading directly to the setup of a specific experiment resulting in a single experimental result conforming to the philosphical idea. Very specific.
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All of them.